Sutukoba

Sutukoba, sometimes referred to as Sutuko, is a village in The Gambia located in the Upper River Region, 332 km east of the capital Banjul and 38 km northeast of the regional capital Basse Santa Su. The population in 2013 was 3317.[1]

Sutukoba
Sutuko
Sutukoba
Location in the Gambia
Coordinates: 13°30′N 14°1′W
Country Gambia
DivisionUpper River Division
DistrictWuli
Government
 • AlkaloKumuntung Jabai
Elevation
95 ft (29 m)
Population
 (2013)
 • Total3,317
 • Ethnicities
Mandinka and Jahanka
 • Religions
Islam

Climate

The surroundings of Sutukoba are a mosaic of farmland and natural vegetation.[2] Average annual temperature is 26 °C . The warmest month is April, when the average temperature is 33 °C, and the coldest is August, with 22 °C.[3] Average annual rainfall is 984 millimeters. The wettest month is September, with an average of 321 mm of rainfall, and the driest is February, with 1 mm of rainfall.[4]

History

At the beginning of the 15th century, Sutukoba was an important trading town within the Kingdom of Wuli, a client state of the Jolof Empire. The town had an estimated 4000 inhabitants at that time.[5] From the early 17th to the 19th century, Portuguese and other Europeans came upriver to exchange manufactures, cloth, leather, ivory, slaves, gold and other goods in Sutukoba (also called Setuko, Sotico, Settiko, or Selico in sources of the time) and the nearby river port of Fattatenda with the local jula merchants.[6][7][8][9] Sutukoba hosts an annual Kankiling Festival to celebrate and preserve the community's history and culture.[10]

People

See also

References
  1. Gambia Bureau of Statistics, 2013 Population and Housing Census: Directory of Settlement, p. 76, https://www.gbosdata.org/downloads/census-2013-8
  2. "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/MODIS. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  5. Rosel Jahn: Gambia. Reiseführer mit Landeskunde. Mit einem Reiseatlas (= Mai’s Weltführer. Bd. 29). Mai, Dreieich 1997, ISBN 3-87936-239-4
  6. van Hoven, Ed (1996). "Local Tradition or Islamic Precept? The Notion of zakāt in Wuli (Eastern Senegal) (La notion de "zakāt" au Wuli (Sénégal))". Cahiers d'Études Africaines. 36 (144): 703–722. doi:10.3406/cea.1996.1863. JSTOR 4392734. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  7. Wright, Donald R. “Darbo Jula: The Role of a Mandinka Jula Clan in the Long-Distance Trade of the Gambia River and Its Hinterland.” African Economic History, no. 3, 1977, pp. 33–45. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3601138. Accessed 27 Jul. 2022.
  8. John M. Gray: History of Gambia. New Imprint. Frank Cass & Co, 1966
  9. Capt. Washington. “Some Account of Mohammedu-Siseï, a Mandingo, of Nyáni-Marú on the Gambia.” The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. 8, 1838, pp. 448–54. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1797825. Accessed 27 Jul. 2022.
  10. Salieu, Yunus S. Third edition of Sutukoba Kankiling Festival launched, The Point, Feb 4th 2020, accessed 11/30/20, https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/third-edition-of-sutukoba-kankiling-festival-launched
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